ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,765, issued on April 22, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).
"Component mounting machine" was invented by Kazuya Kotani (Toyota, Japan), Yuta Yokoi (Kariya, Japan) and Mikiya Suzuki (Nishio, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component mounting machine includes a head having a holding member configured to hold the component, and a control device. The control device performs a pre-mounting inspection for inspecting a state of a component held in the holding member, and controls the head so that the component held in the holding member is mounted on the board in a case where a determination of normality is made in the pre-mo...